The Call of the Wild

Published in 1903

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A big dog leaping with bared teeth at a man in a cap who raises a club
Illustration: Philip R. Goodwin, "Straight at the man he launched" (1903)

Buck is a big, pampered dog on a judge's estate in sunny California, until a gardener sells him to pay a gambling debt. Shipped north to the Klondike gold rush, he learns the law of club and fang as a sled dog in the snow, fights for the lead of the team, and finds one master he would die for. Jack London's 1903 novel, and the call that draws Buck back to the wild.